About the Panellists
An experienced naturalist, Xiaoyun is an avid biodiversity facilitator and partnerships executive with The Untamed Paths. She is also the author of the title chapter in 'Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene' (2020), and contributed a chapter on the ecological dimensions of fast fashion in 'Local Encounters in a Global CIty: Singapore Stories' (2017). A graduate of Yale-NUS College, she specialised in environmental history and policy. Climate concerned and passionate, she guides others to realise the beauty and joy of the thriving natural world, and cultivate care and action towards environmental conservation.
Ms Peng-Ean Khoo read Economics at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK. She trained in London with Price Waterhouse in the Products Group, and subsequently, in the Technology Group, Boston of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Since 2000, Peng-Ean has co-founded Bilberries Blue servicing sustainable enterprises that support and enable the eco-systemic emergence of Good Work in local, regional, international economic development and in the capital marketplace. In 2022, Peng-Ean Khoo co-founded The Kind Grower with Gabriel Fong and Khoo Peng Keat, a pesticide-free food-forest-farm direct producer and distributor in the region. The Kind Grower is committed to be a global brand which leads #FoodSustainabilityintheAnthropocene, by rapid-cycle integrating food-forest-systems, with a commitment to innovating community & marketsplaces of character for sustainable development. The Kind Grower’s farm is nestled in the Sundaland Rainforest of Titiwangsa Mountains.
Dr Diana Chan is the Head of the Aquaculture Innovation Centre established by Enterprise Singapore for the local aquaculture industry in July 2019. She has been actively engaging farms and companies in aquaculture consultancy services and research since 2010. She also conducts training for farms and companies in Singapore Standards 670:2021 and 689:2022 as well as course on farm biosecurity and environmental management developed in collaboration with the Singapore Food Agency. Diana began mud crab hatchery research and development at AIC R&D farm in 2020 and has been leading a project team on developing customised growth stage specific feeds and nutrition using alternative ingredients instead of trash seafood; health and disease management and integrated culture systems for mud crab farming. Research findings about her team's work was presented at the workshop organised by AIC and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in November 2023 which involved mud crab experts from the region.